Lecture 2: Hierarchy
This lecture focuses on the technique of using hierarchy to achieve scalability. Examples on web caches, P2P file sharing, DNS, routing, multicast are given. A case study on NICE protocol is discussed. (PowerPoint Slides on NICE, (borrowed from CS5248))
- Scalable Application Layer Multicast
S. Banerjee, B. Bhattacharjee, C. Kommareddy, SIGCOMM 2002.
Lecture 1: Introduction
The first lecture gives an overview of this course and introduces the requirements, challenges, and primitives operations in a large scale distributed systems. (PowerPoint Slides, Scribe Notes)
